Full story here. One has to wonder at what point would re-runs of The Cosby Show draw the same audience.
The second month of 2010 hasn’t brought good ratings news for MSNBC’s Countdown With Keith Olbermann. The show lost 43% of its cable news target adults 25-54 audience and 29% of its average viewership between February, 2009 and February, 2010.
We have written about Chavez taking over the energy industry in his country. The results of course are rolling blackouts and brownouts. So this is priceless.
Now if you could create electric energy from pure leftist bullshit then the lights would never go off in his country.
Van Jones does not have a degree in science nor economics but yet Princeton has hired him teach a seminar on those subjects. So much for a Princeton education. The Washington Post fawns over him in their coverage here.
He will have a one-year joint appointment as a distinguished visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for African American Studies and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he will teach a seminar on environmental and economic policy.
Eddie Glaude Jr., who chairs the Center for African American Studies, said in an interview that Princeton was eager to welcome "the leading voice in the environmental justice movement," even if it sparks some debate on campus.
"All of this is designed to create a vibrant intellectual environment for the exchange of ideas," said Glaude, adding that he had just hosted a visit by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele this week. "Universities are places for diverse voices to engage in conversation, relatively free from sanction and constraint, and to examine divergent ideas."
Jones will commute to Princeton from Washington, where he lives with his family, and will spearhead a "green opportunity initiative" as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Jones said he would spend his time at the think tank examining how to push for "green enterprise zones" that would encourage clean technology development in poor urban and rural areas; for an aggressive national renewable energy standard; and for a "Home Star" program that would provide federal incentives to make homes more energy-efficient.
This guy is amazingly dumb. He wants to push for "green energy zones" in poor urban areas. Does he want the poor to pay MORE for electricity? Anyone that looks into the cost of solor power can tell you that unless the government gives you equipment for free then it costs more per kilowatt than the electric company charges. Oh wait - I forgot who we are talking about. Maybe that is what he wants.
Full story here.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Friday that she plans to introduce legislation that would bar insurance companies from enacting health insurance premium rate increases that the Secretary of the Health and Human Services deems to be unjustified.
The bill would create a national Medical Insurance Rate Authority, which would be able to prevent such increases. Feinstein's announcement follows reports that Anthem Blue Cross had intended to jack up premiums for certain policyholders in California by as much as 39 percent.
A report published Thursday by HHS found that health insurance companies have requested dramatic premium hike increases over the past year in states beyond California -- 56 percent in Michigan, 24 percent in Connecticut and 23 percent in Maine.
Dear insurance company: If your costs are going up then tough - you can just go out of business.
Die die die,
Dianne Feinstein
Say Anything reports:
I arrived in Washington DC today to cover CPAC and since I was in town, and since CPAC doesn’t really get rolling until tomorrow, I tagged along with some Scott Hennen Show listeners on an extensive tour of the White House as part of the Common Sense Travel Club. One of the stops on the tour (which was wonderful by the way) was the White House library.
Now, according out the person who guided our tour, the library is stock with books picked out by the First Lady, Michelle Obama. Being a bit of a bibliophile, I started to peruse some of the books on the shelves…and lookie, lookie what I found (click for a larger view):
By itself, this wouldn’t be that big of a deal. But in the context of Anita Dunn saying Chairman Mao is her favorite political philosopher? In the context of the Mao ornament on the White House Christmas tree?
In the context of Obama’s economic policies?
Well, I’ll let you make your own call.
Da - is good reading for cold Soviet Washington winter.
Full story here.
ConocoPhillips, BP America and Caterpillar pulled out of a leading alliance of businesses and environmental groups pushing for climate change legislation on Tuesday, citing complaints that the bills under consideration are unfair to American industry.
The sudden pullout of three corporate giants from a leading alliance of businesses and environmental groups could be the death knell for climate change legislation languishing on Capitol Hill.
ConocoPhillips, BP America and Caterpillar's announced Tuesday they will pull out of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, citing complaints that the bills now in Congress are unfair to American industry.
BP spokesman Ronnie Chappell said Tuesday's announcements are not a statement on the likelihood that climate change legislation will fail.
"I would never speculate as to what would happen with a pending piece of legislation," Chappell said.
But he said the bills on the table no longer "conform" with what USCAP envisioned for a climate change bill. He said the legislation -- including one bill that passed the House but is stalled in the Senate -- does not provide adequate protections to U.S. refineries.
If any bills are passed, they will result in more oil imports, the closure of U.S. refineries and the loss of U.S. jobs. Plus he said it's too hard on the transportation sector.
Is this a sign that large companies are backing away from throwing their cash at non-profits that help shove the man made global warming theme down our throats?
Via BreitbartTV:
Stossel: Michelle Berry runs a day-care business out of her home in Flint, MI. She thought that she owned her own business, but Berry's been told she is now a government employee and union member. It's not voluntary. Suddenly, Berry and 40,000 other Michigan private day-care providers have learned that union dues are being taken out of the child-care subsidies the state sends them. The "union" is a creation of AFSCME, the government workers union, and the United Auto Workers.
